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Cracktoberfest Part One: Constructing the Crack "Epidemic"

Behind the Bastards

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Dark Alliance, the Story Behind the Crack Explosion

In August of 1996, a young journalist named Gary Webb publishes a massive three part investigation under the title Dark Alliance. The San Jose Mercury figures out that the internet is where journalism can go viral. This article is the first time that you have someone saying in a very condensed clear form, the CIA brought crack to the inner city by in order to fund the contracts. That's actually not what the article says because the CIA is not bringing crack anywhere with theCIA is doing is allowing Nicaraguan drug dealers to bring cocaine into the United States so that they can sell it and then turn it into crack.

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